Barn 2
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Barn 2
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The word barn comes from the Old English bere, for barley (or grain in general), and aern, for a storage place thus, a storehouse for barley. Another word for 'barn' in Old English was beretun, "barley enclosure" (from tun: 'enclosure,' 'house' or beretun (barton), also meaning a threshing floor.However, the common English name for a grain storage building now is granary.
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May 13th, 2014
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